AI@50

AI@50, formally known as the "Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years" (July 13–15, 2006), was a conference organized by James Moor, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth workshop which effectively inaugurated the history of artificial intelligence. Five of the original ten attendees were present: Marvin Minsky, Ray Solomonoff, Oliver Selfridge, Trenchard More, and John McCarthy.

While sponsored by Dartmouth College, General Electric, and the Frederick Whittemore Foundation, a $200,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) called for a report of the proceedings that would:


 * Analyze progress on AI's original challenges during the first 50 years, and assess whether the challenges were "easier" or "harder" than originally thought and why
 * Document what the AI@50 participants believe are the major research and development challenges facing this field over the next 50 years, and identify what breakthroughs will be needed to meet those challenges
 * Relate those challenges and breakthroughs against developments and trends in other areas such as control theory, signal processing, information theory, statistics, and optimization theory.

A summary report by the conference director, James Moor, was published in AI Magazine.

Conference Program and links to published papers

 * James Moor, conference Director, Introduction
 * Carol Folt and Barry Scherr, Welcome
 * Carey Heckman, Tonypandy and the Origins of Science

AI: Past, Present, Future

 * John McCarthy, What Was Expected, What We Did, and AI Today
 * Marvin Minsky, The Emotion Machine

The Future Model of Thinking

 * Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque, A Large Part of Human Thought
 * David Mumford, What is the Right Model for 'Thought'?
 * Stuart Russell, The Approach of Modern AI

The Future of Network Models

 * Geoffrey Hinton & Simon Osindero, From Pandemonium to Graphical Models and Back Again
 * Rick Granger, From Brain Circuits to Mind Manufacture

The Future of Learning & Search

 * Oliver Selfridge, Learning and Education for Software: New Approaches in Machine Learning
 * Ray Solomonoff, Machine Learning — Past and Future
 * Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Learning to be Intelligent
 * Peter Norvig, Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI

The Future of AI

 * Rod Brooks, Intelligence and Bodies
 * Nils Nilsson, Routes to the Summit
 * Eric Horvitz, In Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on Challenges and Trajectories

The Future of Vision

 * Eric Grimson, Intelligent Medical Image Analysis: Computer Assisted Surgery and Disease Monitoring
 * Takeo Kanade, Artificial Intelligence Vision: Progress and Non-Progress
 * Terry Sejnowski, A Critique of Pure Vision

The Future of Reasoning

 * Alan Bundy, Constructing, Selecting and Repairing Representations of Knowledge
 * Edwina Rissland, The Exquisite Centrality of Examples
 * Bart Selman, The Challenge and Promise of Automated Reasoning

The Future of Language and Cognition

 * Trenchard More The Birth of Array Theory and Nial
 * Eugene Charniak, Why Natural Language Processing is Now Statistical Natural Language Processing
 * Pat Langley, Intelligent Behavior in Humans and Machines

The Future of the Future

 * Ray Kurzweil, Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century
 * George Cybenko, The Future Trajectory of AI
 * Charles J. Holland, DARPA's Perspective

AI and Games

 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Games as a Test-bed for Artificial Intelligence Research"
 * Danny Kopec, Chess and AI
 * Shay Bushinsky, Principle Positions in Deep Junior's Development

Future Interactions with Intelligent Machines

 * Daniela Rus, Making Bodies Smart
 * Sherry Turkle, From Building Intelligences to Nurturing Sensibilities

Selected Submitted Papers: Future Strategies for AI

 * J. Storrs Hall, Self-improving AI: An Analysis
 * Selmer Bringsjord, The Logicist Manifesto
 * Vincent C. Müller, Is There a Future for AI Without Representation?
 * Kristinn R. Thórisson, Integrated A.I. Systems

Selected Submitted Papers: Future Possibilities for AI

 * Eric Steinhart, Survival as a Digital Ghost
 * Colin T. A. Schmidt, Did You Leave That 'Contraption' Alone With Your Little Sister?
 * Michael Anderson & Susan Leigh Anderson, The Status of Machine Ethics
 * Marcello Guarini, Computation, Coherence, and Ethical Reasoning